China and the West

Liu, Jianhua. A Cheng de 'Qi wang' yu Jiamou de 'Ju wei ren' [ID D24746].
Both of these two works are 'serious absurdist philosophic fictions' that were 'viewing the world through panes or re-examining it in a philosophically detached way'.
Their heroes were not demonstrating the logics of real life through their actions, but in a casual, wary and even idiotic manner, conveying to us their attitudes towards life – not the concrete living conditions but the short life that universally exists for us ; not the objective world, but the nihilities of time and space.
A critic asserted : We cannot hastily conclude that A Cheng was particularly influenced by Camus' art or philosophy or that he was copying or imitating Camus. On the contrary, we are more convinced that contemporary Chinese literature has found its own specific circumstance and ground that are essentially similar to those for contemporary world literature. It was not in its superficial imitation of Camus but in its distinctive root-seeking that A Cheng's fiction unfolded the existential absurdity in Camus's L'étranger.